Grantham High School - Olympian Yearbook (St Catharines, Ontario Canada)

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Best Essay Pat Beard 13D One of the more recent products of the world ' s fertile minds is the aid to eye defects known as glasses or spectacles. This invention, perched on the noses of many thousands of people, is to my mind, strangely untalked about. Nobody I know has ever inquired about the condition of my glasses or exclaimed about my choice of style in this area, good or bad. Why is this object so unnoticed? In the following para- graphs, I hope to shed some light on this important question. One of the common fallacies of today is that anyone who wears glasses is wise and intelligent, or at least well-read. This is not necessarily so. Without going into medical details, let it suffice to say that anyone who wears glasses can be just as stupid as the next fellow. So, in the same respect as a pipe is falsely believed to denote a person who is hep , glasses mean next to nothing. In the field of sports, glasses are definitely a hindrance. Many ' s the time that a pair of glasses have been knocked off the face of some unsuspecting basketball or pushball player and shattered on the floor, immediately holding up the game while the half-blind victim vainly attempts to gather up the remains of his visionary aid. Almost anyone can wear glasses, the only qualifications being two ears and a nose. However, faults in these areas can have some effect on the person ' s appearance. If, for example, one ear is lower than the other, the wearer may tend to hang his glasses at a permanent twenty degree angle, an effect which can be quite startling. If a person has a poorly-shaped nose (if it slopes down quite suddenly or lacks a bridge) the wearer may suddenly find his glasses just above his nostrils and his composure just about gone. And so. it can not be readily decided whether glasses are a help or a hindrance to their possessors; whether it be in the field of sports, knowledge, social intercourse or appearance. Many wearers have little interest in the artificial protrusion on their faces, a fact which is to me really amazing. But, whether glasses are good or bad really doesn ' t matter does it? YOUNG AND IN LOVE Gail White 9E A young girl wandered by the sea No more, she said, does he love me. She stood and gazed with dismal eyes He doesn ' t love you, her heart cries. She stood, her hair tossed back, windswept. And as she looked and gazed, she wept His love for me was made of lies, He doesn ' t love you, her heart cries. She walketh closer by the sea. And dropped down upon her knee, Shall I leave this world she sighs He doesn ' t love you her heart cries. She walketh further into the sea He hasn ' t any love for me And that once he did, he still denies He doesn ' t love you her heart cries. What shall I do, where shall I go? Her cries echoed sweet and low. But now she ' s gone and as waves rise He never loved you, her soul replies.